The Cecil Whig., 1887-06-11

no thlnK IL Is shame tnat within %
years after the war is over the Demo-
cratic party in power should emphasize
to all the world their sympathy with the
| Confederate cause.
THE President has not been free from
fault in this respect. Tie bias of his
| mind is shown in recent letter to the
committee who invited him to attend the
un'eiling of the monument erected to the
memory of John G. Calhoun. lie says
he believes it would be well if all he
| (Calhoun) thought, and all he believed
and taught, and all his aspirations were
better known and understood.' What
would Andrew Jackson have said to such
n sentiment as this, if uttered in his pres
ence in the name of the Democratic party?
Il do not wish to utter one word to re-
vive the animosites of war. All that |
ask is that the defeated party will honor
ably fulfill the terms of their surrender,
and that the results of the war may be
respected and observed with honor by
Confederates, and firmly, but with char.
ity and kindness, by Union soldiers and
citizens. For this appeal alike TO Con-
federate and Union soldiers-to the blue
and the gray-so that when passion and
prejudice disappear both sides will stand
by each other in the improvement and
development of our great and united
| country"
EXISTING ISSUES.
Referring to existing issues, he said:
'The future opens before us an infinite
variety of questions which will turn on
the extent of national authority. The
revenues must be reduced This the Re-
publican party did many times since the
war, and carefully selected for repeal or
reduction taxes on home production and
| duties on articles that did not compete
with home industry. We added to the
| free lists, made free from all duty more
| than one-third III value of all the articles
or merchandise imported from foreign
| countries, including all articles in COM
| mon use amorg our people which could
not be produced here, including tea and
| coffee. We levied ii duty on the remain
| ing two thirds sufficient to raise all the
revenue needed, almost exclusively on
| articles that competed with home pro-
| ducts. In this way we SO protected our
| industry that nearly every article of CON-
mon use on the farm, in the worshop or
the household is made in this country.
Nearly all the articles except sugar, from
which this large revenue is derived, are
articles of luxury, mainly consumed oy
the rich.
"a protective duty has been placed on
sugar for the benefit of the sugar planters
of Louisiana; but we now propose as one
means of reducing the surplus revenue to
largely reduce this tax, and as a protec-
tion to sugar growers some propose to
pay out of the duties on sugar a bounty
for the home production of all kinds of
sugar from cane or beets or sorghum.
This policy of protection has been ex-
tended to the products of the farm, the
yield of the mines, as well as the fabrics
of the mechanic and the manufacturer.
In this way the levying of taxes is made
the means of national growth and devel-
opment, nearly trebling in 20 years our
domestic manufactures and at the same
time, by competition, reducing the prices.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
"And so with all the deeply interesting
and important questions affecting Amer
can labor and laborers, The Republican
party, embracing in 1t the great body of
the producers of the country, has uni
formly, both by state and national legis
lation, adopted every just measure that
has been proposed to improve their con-
dition, to promote employment, to regu-
late the hours of labor, to secure good
wages and prompt pay in good money,
and stands ready to adopt every just
measure to open their way to comfort,
wealth, and to all the advanced positions
in public and private life"
He contra Stal the re1a atinpS of tho tun
parties to subjects of education and inter
ma, improvements and said that he voted
for the civil service law, which was Re.
publican measure, and he wonld heartily |
join in its just and firm enforcement.
Nh. Sherman concluded as follows:
"And so, fellow citizens, you may run the
gamut of all the political questions, great |
and small, that divide the two parties, and |
you will find the line of demarcation is |
Union and Confederate, Republican and |
Democratic. | am not opposed to Con-
federate soldiers, but to Confederate |
ideas. Many Confederate soldiers were |
true to the Union until drawn by state |
pride to fight for the Confederacy. | have |
no dislike for Democrats, many of whom |
l cherish as my dearest friends, but do |
dislike the tendency of that party to Con-
federate ideas. They taunt us with wav-
ing the bloody shirt; we believe they |
wave the Confederate flag. We should |
not be content until every
CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION
capable of improvement, and which will
yield benefits equa! to its cost, shall be
improved. We should connect the Father
of Waters with the great system of lakes
L., - -,
tect our commerce in transporting sup
plies in peace, but to transfer from the
heart Of the country vessels and means
of defense in time of war. The education
of the rising generation, without respect
to race, color or previous condition, ought
to be a constant subject of desire, not
only by the local and state governments,
but by the national government. The
equal en- joyment of every civil and political
right given by the constitution should be
secured by every legal and constitutional
means. The shadows and prejudices of
the past should be lifted by the lights of
modern civilization, and the American
people should feel that they are not citi.
zens ofmere states or local communities,
but of great and powerful nation.
The workingman in every condition
and employment of life should be encour-
aged, protected and assisted by every
reasonable measure to advance his condi-
tion, and to open up to him, by honest
labor and enterprise. all the avenues Of
wealth and honor. Every measure should
be adopted that will tend to restore to
our commerce the carrying trade of the
world to the utermost ends of the earth.
A foreign policy should be adopted which,
while firmly maintaining the rights of an
American citizen, yet will seek the ad-
vantages of state of peace to be man.
tanned by an honorable, cordial and
friendly intercourse.
MISSION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
"The Republican party is the only one
fit to carry out sucn policy. Our ad- |
versaries may brood over the dead past |
and mourn the decay of Confederate
ideas, but Republicans hail with un-
bound satisfaction every advance of our |
country in strength and power at home |
and abroad, conscious that this is consis- |
tent with the full powers of state, county |
and local sovereignty, reaching to every |
family and homestead in the land. We |
brood over no lost cause, but look for |
ward hopefully to reap for future gen.
erations the great benefits conferred by |
the sacrifices and services of our patriot
soldiers in the preservation of the Union